For solo founders, vibe coders, and bootstrapped teams
Your software stack should not require funding.
Products
Narrow tools. Small-company pricing.
Importer
$19.99 / month
CSV and Excel importing that stays in the browser
Column mapping, typed validation, locales, and failed-row export run client-side. Spreadsheet contents never leave your customer's machine. Free for development.
Feedback
from $9.99 / month
Feature requests inside your product, not a public board
List, submit, vote, and status badges in React. Your app asserts identity. BYO keeps posts on your backend; Hosted stores them with us. No seat tax.
Chat
from $9.99 / month
Private messaging inside your authenticated product
1:1 and small-group chat in React. Your app asserts identity. BYO keeps messages on your backend; Hosted stores messages and files with us.
Onboard
from $9.99 / month
First-run setup checklist inside your product
Required and optional steps, dependencies, eligibility, and facts in React. Your app asserts identity. BYO keeps progress on your backend; Hosted stores it with us. Not a DAP.
Comments
from $9.99 / month
Discussions on a record your app already authorizes
Threads, a comment section, or forum topics beside a task, page, or portal request. Your server mints access. BYO keeps the text on your backend; Hosted stores it with us.
RFQ
from $9.99 / month
Buyer and supplier requests for quote inside your SaaS
Requester, supplier, and comparison surfaces for goods and services. Your server names the people. BYO keeps records on your backend; Hosted stores structured state with us. Selection is intent only.
More products are in the pipeline. Suggest a product or email [email protected].
Why Bootstrapware exists
The boring parts of SaaS have a pricing problem.
Your CSV importer should not be your third-largest SaaS expense.
CSV / Excel importing
Dromo Professional
$599 / month
250 production imports included
Strong product. The floor assumes you're an enterprise data team.
Feature request boards
Canny Pro
$400 / month
Public roadmap and feedback suite
Excellent for public portals. Overbuilt when you only need an embed inside your app.
First-run setup checklist
Userflow Adoption Studio
$500 / month
1,000 MAU on monthly billing
Full DAP with tours and analytics. Bootstrapware Onboard is the narrow checklist embed at $9.99 / $19.99 without MAU tax.
In-app messaging (tours)
Appcues Growth
Custom / month
Product tours and in-app messaging
PM-friendly visual builder. Overbuilt when you only need a setup checklist behind your auth gate.
Cancellation / retention
Churnkey Starter
$250 / month
Billed yearly; under $5k/month churn volume
The ROI math works at scale. Before scale, this is your third-largest bill.
Pricing snapshot: public pages, August 2026. These products are genuinely good. Their pricing is designed for a different company than yours.
What we're pushing against
Three things that made this category expensive.
The SaaS Tax
A feedback board, an import component, and a retention flow compound into hundreds of dollars a month. Together they have nothing to do with how much your business is growing.
Enterprise creep
A useful narrow tool becomes a suite, then a sales process. By the time it has governance and dedicated onboarding, you cannot afford it and you did not need most of it.
"I wanted a feature-request embed. I do not need a public roadmap portal."
Funded-company assumptions
Pricing justified against engineer salaries and Series B capital. Rational on a $2M budget. Irrational when that line item is a meaningful percentage of monthly revenue.
"This price makes sense for them. Not for me."
The product doctrine
Deliberately smaller software with small-company economics.
We do
- Solve the 20% of features that cover 80% of small-company use cases
- Workspace pricing with no per-seat tax
- Pass commodity costs through transparently (BYOK where it makes sense)
- Ship first-class APIs, typed SDKs, and stable error codes as standard features
- Simple self-serve signup, configure, cancel, and export with no meeting required
- Make leaving easy: webhook export, data export, no lock-in patterns
We don't
- Enterprise sales motions, demo calls, or procurement loops
- Opaque credit systems or metered billing that creates surprise invoices
- Per-seat pricing when seats do not drive the underlying cost
- Active human moderation, bespoke onboarding, or dedicated CSMs
- Chase feature parity with a product that costs ten times our price
- Hold customer data hostage behind cancellation flows
If you need SAML, a dedicated compliance review, a custom DPA, or fourteen permission levels, you have outgrown Bootstrapware. That is not a failure state. It means the product did its job.
Agent-native
Tell your coding agent what you need. We did the annoying part.
One install
pnpm add @bootstrapware/importer or @bootstrapware/feedback. No mandatory dashboard visit before writing a line of code.
Typed and documented
Full TypeScript types, stable error codes, and complete runnable examples. The agent can integrate without product ambiguity.
AGENTS.md ready
Copy the integration rules into your repo. Your agent will know which keys stay server-side and what must never be sent to Bootstrapware.
Guides: Importer, Feedback, Chat. Agent rules: Importer, Feedback, Chat.
Before you spend the weekend building it, or hundreds a month buying it, check if we have one.
Production software without venture pricing. Each product has its own page with full pricing, a live demo, and documentation.